Molinda Goforth

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Home & Life Menu – Monday June 10

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Cup of Courage

When you go to a restaurant, there are several things to choose.  First is an appetizer, then the main course and  dessert must follow.  All is served with a choice of  drink.  What would you like to drink is usually the first question.

I choose my Cup of Courage this morning!  Recently I drank from the bitter cup of loneliness and it’s great to change that menu.  My Cup of Courage speaks that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Main menu for today is the 7.5 hours at work.  Appetizer for this morning is the daily Bible Reading, then catch up from chores I did not do Saturday and Sunday.  A friend is sick and requires a trip to the Doctor.  just when you think you have it all together, do you find things you did not plan for tend to interrupt your day?

My dessert will be a cup of coffee at Books A Million and researching articles for construction of the Little House!

Fun day planned!

Sunday A Day of Praise and Thanksgiving

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Greetings to the Lord’s day!  I thank God I have lived another week.  A dear friend died this week.  He was the song leader at the Church I attended for years.  His legacy leaves memories of songs of comfort at funerals,  songs of joy reflecting a Christian life, songs of praise, and leadership for the choir.   Although he had a profession, he will be remembered as a Song Leader by many.  In the Bible it states to Enter into his Gates with Thanksgiving and into His courts with Praise.  Jimmy Jackson entered into the gates of Heaven this week, and I am sure he was singing.

My summary of the past week includes the internalized spirit of Courage to  keep me focused. My fill-up fuel for my body, mind and soul is to drink a  Cup of Courage each day.  It isn’t a tangible drink but the acceptance that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

My Recipe Book

Did I accomplish all the goals for this past week?  No.  However, I did complete more by being focused.  Prescription for this week is to drink a Cup of Courage each hour that I am awake.  What are the ingredients for a Cup of Courage?

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

My recipe for a Cup of Courage this week is to hourly take time to reflect and meditate in the law of the Lord!

Wow!   Look at the promise in the verse that follows.  Drinking from  this cup I can look forward to prosperity, good health and leaving behind a good name.

Blessings and Love to all,

Molinda

Relax on The Way Home

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Saturday Morning

Goals are great.  It’s good to have a choice to complete goals.  I did not get my debt summary completed yesterday.  Today is a work day at the job.  So. this mornings bucket list to complete yesterday and today’s goals  includes a stop at Belks, the Dollar Store, the Book store and then to work at 3.

Relax

I will work on my debt summary at the book store.  The book store  is a place I love to be.

 

Maybe I could just lay down and gather bunches of knowledge from the books on the shelf!

Little Tin Box – Future Bank for Little House

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It’s time to  count the Bank.  My Bank is the Little Tin Box.  I have seven credit cards, five maxed out. The first payday of each month makes payments on three cards.  Change that has been collected for the previous month is added to the payment of the card selected to be paid in full soon!  This card was selected following Dave Ramsey’s instructions.

Just counted the change and there is $10.00!  Minimum payment for this card is $25.00.  The Balance today is $86.50.  Applying the $3.00 I would have paid extra on another one and the 10.00 makes 37.00 for this card!  Wow!  I can do without 2 drinks and make it $40.00.  Perhaps by the end of the day I will see my way clear to pay this one in full.

Stanza from The Little Tin Box:

You’re implying I’m a crook  And I say No sir….There is nothing in my past to hide.  I’ve been taking empty bottles to the grocer and each nickel that I got was put aside

Into A Little Tin Box,  A Little Tin Box  That a little tin key unlocks  There is nothing unorthodox about a Little Tin Box.

Why Do I Have A Goal For A Debt Free Home?

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In order to preserve privacy, I will not disclose total details of this situation but state a friend I had not seen in years amplified my awareness of  my spiritual growth.   Her financial status has intensified my desire to become debt free.  I have a lot of unsecured debt.  She is at ease because she is buying a house.    I see it…..This friend  is two paydays away from the beginning of foreclosure.   She is paid twice a month, has a bi monthly payment for her home and NO RESERVE money  Go figure. Debt is debt, secured or unsecured.  We take ownership of security with a secured debt at the bank that really holds ownership of home.

Recently, a dear acquaintance filed bankruptcy,  lost the house and moved on.  In Astoria, I was aware of two other situations where one of the partners lost a job and the loss of home followed.

Yesterday I met another lady who moved here from Georgia,  running from the past of loss  Her home became a foreclosure, her marriage a divorce,  her car a repossession,  “her life.”   She started over homeless,  earned  $17,000 last year and is doing a bit better this year.

 I am aware of women compromising their moral standards to obtain the favor of man and therefore have the “necessities of life”

We compromise our standards to blend with those of others and become servants to each person we owe.  As a result we are a fragments of the whole person God created us to be.  Then,  Dr. Smarty Pants prescribes an antidepressant to keep us sane………..Excuse me?  What is wrong with this picture.

I am up early and will start getting ready to go to work.  Today, I will look for the good in my job and remember I am in a section of sales which provides a way to increase my income.  It is hard for me to focus on the present moment.  I tend to think of what will happen tomorrow, plan for the day after and sometimes miss the opportunities I need.

Thoughts of tomorrow include: it is payday, tomorrow I will list my debts for comparison, and set goals for the next 4 weeks.  Those goals will be followed with a specific action plan for generating the money to cover my deficit.

I would love to daydream about moving into the little house.  No daydreams allowed!  Those narrators who used to rent a space in my head, telling me that tomorrow everything would work out are evicted,  I am working on today.  Today, I will persist until I succeed, be a selling machine at work and assess the facts late tonight.  My house plans and goals will specifically avoid the path that leads to foreclosure, dread of payments, being a slave to the lenders.

Capture the Home Vision

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Are you tethered to debt?

Tethered to Lenders

From the experiences of the past 12 months, I can verify that a dream will become a nightmare if it gets caught in the spiders web of debt, lack, want, loneliness or emotional instability.

I am reaching out and taking steps to capture my dream and make my vision come true.  My vision will impact, influence and change the lives of those riding in my path.  Like using the the Amway circles, circling the obstacles in my path and ways to overcome, my vision will also influence some habits of my friends and draw us closer to God.

My blog  has changed format to reflect daily events in my life.  Some places and people will not be named in order not to cross the privacy line.

To capture the dream for the little house, I must first face the debt and get release.  According to God’s word I  am a servant to the lender.  Wow!  I am Superwoman! I am a Servant to about a Dozen people.  That is equal to 10 weeks manual labor wrapped into one week.  No exaggeration here!  If you doubt it try being late on a payment and listen to the phone ring  Those nice people who loaned money become a computerized monster with hourly reminders that a promise made is a debt unpaid.

So, let’s drink a Cup of Courage together and build a platform that will lead to a debt free home.

Cup Of Courage – Going Home

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I am faced with what could be overwhelming debt.  Not bad, really,  It’s only $900 each month in the Red  My total debt is approximately $75,000.  First order for my agenda is to generate $265.00 more each week.  Secondly, I must  know exactly how much I owe.

Third step is the Little Tin Box.  Have you watched the musical The Little Tin Box?  The little song goes like this:

May we ask you a question?  Amazing is it not?  That the city pays you slightly less than fifty bucks a week, Yet, you’ve purchased a private yacht.

Witness:
I am positive your honor must be joking, Any working man could do what I have done. For a month or two I simply gave up smoking,  And I put my extra pennies one by one….

Into a Little Tin Box, a Little Tin Box  That a little tin key unlocks  There is nothing unorthodox about a Little Tin Box…..

Skipping ahead to step two, I have my pennies in a little jar accumulated in the Month of May and will be paying additional pennies on the first credit card to be paid in full soon.

By Friday evening I will have an exact amount owed.  It will be interesting to see how much my approximate amount matches  When I can’t deal with stress and debt is stress to me, I just put it in the back of my mind and pretend it isn’t there.  During my real estate career I have found others tend forget the debts owed. This action fills many cups of Stress.

Tomorrow may require two Cups of Courage to develop a plan to meet my deficit before it becomes an alligator and eats me alive.

Drink a cup of Courage and document  your facts.  Do you know how much you owe?  Is there a positive cash flow at your house?

Seeking Balance and Core Strength

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For years I wore high heels!  Then, I drove into a tree.  Much trauma!  I bruised my heart, punctured my liver, broke my ribs and broke my foot.  My foot never fully recovered.

Now,  I can’t wear heels.  In addition, I find that through out the years I have favored the foot that was injured, so I walk with a limp and there is weakness in my abdomen.  Until I returned to Tennessee and started to walk daily, I did not realize this.  Wow!  My tummy got sore.  Then the muscles started tightening.  Hmmmm   One of the girls at work made the comment that to walk with those spike heels, you had to have a strong core.

Balance & Courage

Bingo,  I got the lesson.  To become debt free, to build a little house, to accomplish anything that isn’t readily accepted one needs a strong core.  Strength to face the opposition, strength to keep a focused vision and strength to enjoy the blessings from living outside the box!  Courage is part of our core or Fear if the lace of courage is present.

I find it has become easy to be sidetracked.   I recognize I have been living in Wish Land and limping along toward my goals for building my little house.  Time to find Easy Street. My vehicle is Courage.

Want to move to my community?  Drink your Cup of Courage and ride along.

Easy Street

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Sunday Morning, rain is coming down!  I did not go to church this morning.  I have spent some quality time with God!  The physical feeling of my body is incredible after being quiet, listening to my Maker and resting in His peace.

Matthew 11:30

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

28Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

My Dad and I used to sing the song Come Unto Me in Church.  Today I am resting in the arms of God and my burdens feel light.

Little Home

Does this relate to my little house?  Definitely!  For the past two weeks I have observed two little Robins prepare their nest for babies.  Then,  they take turns sitting on the nest.

This morning the little babies are peeking out of the egg,  Mama and Papa are bringing food.  As the rain poured down and the winds blew one of them sat on the nest and spread his wings to protect the babies.  Amazing!

God taught the birds to construct shelter, to provide for their babies and to let them fly!  This is my lesson for today.  I will move to Easy Street following the instructions of the master.

By example, the house was constructed from natural available materials, the location was in a limb protected by leaves from the elements, food from the soil and wisdom that when the babies are grown they will leave the nest and Go Forth in life and Fly!

Go Forth with me and God today.

 

Stop For Directions

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Money……..I had a dream and came back to Tennessee to implement it…..That was part of my mission.  The other part was to face and conquer the imaginary bad memories in my mind and soul.

I let the memory demons possess the majority of my thoughts, then  focused  the rest  on a tiny part of my mission to become debt free.   Funny, as I focused on my debt my bank account depleted,  no job, no money   sad holidays. The demons in my mind grew and almost took over.  To add icing on this cake, those in my immediate space did not understand and therefore did not approve.  I craved their encouragement and approval.

The only thing I could link to my unpleasant circumstance  was lack of money.  Got a job peddling something that is not a necessity is usually purchased on credit and therefore conflicts with my beliefs for everyone  to become debt free. Stress from debt, lack and joy almost erased the path to the little house.  Thank goodness for the post by Michael Hyatt to fire the narrator!  I did that………..Here is some of the road before me.

The job where I am employed by someone else is now an adventure.  I pretend I am a guest on that TV show about being the owner and starting at the bottom.  The last 3 days have been fun.  It gets better each day.  Physically, I am more exhausted each day.  This is the road called Stress.  STOP!  I see the sign before me that says STOP!  Take a different street.

I worked until 11 last night. It is 6:56 AM and I will be at work at 8:30.  I will focus on the job and after work look for the Street called Rest.

My mission is to straighten the curves, turn pennies into dollars, pay debt and start the little house.      Next?

Tomorrow I work the last shift of this week.  I will rest and balance the budget, plan some additional strategy, identify the location and seek directions.

Want to ride with me?  Check out my vehicle Friday.